Queer communion : Ron Athey /
Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance art ove...
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Bristol :
Intellect Books,
2020.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- PRELUDE / Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell-- INTRODUCTION: QUEER COMMUNION AND THE WORLDS OF RON ATHEY / Amelia Jones
- WRITING ATHEY
- Writing Athey, Athey's Writings / Amelia Jones
- PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED. Unless otherwise noted, text entirely by Ron Athey
- "Premature Ejaculation written by Rozz [Williams] and Ron [Athey]," c. 1981/ c. 2000; to be published in Ewa Wojciak book on No Mag, 2020
- Brochure for Walker Art Center (at Patrick's Cabaret)
- "Polemic of Blood: Ron Athey on the 'Post-AIDS' Body," Walker Art Gallery website, posted March 19, 2015
- "Gifts of the Spirit," Ben is Dead issue #25 (Los Angeles, 1995)
- "Raised in the Lord: Revelations at the Knee of Miss Velma," LA Weekly (June 30, 1995)
- "Deliverance: Introduction, Foreword, Description, and Selected Text," Acting on AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Politics, ed. Joshua Oppenheimer and Helena Reckitt (London: Serpent's Tail, 1997)
- "The Catholic Envy of Vena Mae," Unnatural Disasters: Recent Writings from the Golden State, ed. Nicole Panter (San Diego: Incommunicado Press, 1996
- "Trixie Assigns Ron Athey Essay Questions," "ROD'N'BOB," Infected Faggot Perspectives, Los Angeles, issue #15 (c. 1996?)-- "Ron Athey's Dissections: A Tribute to Griffith Park," Honcho (December 1997)
- "Ron Athey's Dissections: Split Personality, or So Many Men," Honcho (January 1998)
- "Ron Athey's Dissections: Flirting with the Far Right," Honcho (June 1997)
- "Rozz Williams, 1963-1998" [Obituary], LA Weekly (April 8, 1998)-- David Wood T. G., "Ron Athey Interview," Body Probe: Torture Garden 2, ed. David Wood (London: Creation Books, December 1, 1999)
- "The Violent Disbelief of Ron Athey," Sex and Guts, ed. Gene Gregorits and Lydia Lunch (Los Angeles: Phony Lid Books, 2003)
- "totally Rad experience with in a totally Rad Party," Radical People 1 n.2 (2015)
- Untitled ["Day Two of the 10 year cycle of. Remission. Dual-diagnosis "], The Golden Fool, ed. Tristene Roman and Luka Fisher (Betep International, June 6, 2016)
- "I'm with the Band: Sound Design at the Intersection of Sex Clubs, Drance, and Electro," to be published with the Chris Cruse re-lease of Drance's "Latex Love," from the 1991 album Hermetically Sealed, 2020
- UNPUBLISHED, From the Ron Athey archive
- Miscellaneous notes, handwritten performance script, and sketches relating to performances with Rozz Williams, Premature Ejaculation, 1981
- "I hate everybody when I feel like I'm on the outside," c. 1980s typescript with handwritten emendations
- "Angry Pain," handwritten diary page torn out of pad, c. late 1980s
- "Letter #1 / to a pubescent Holy rolling Ronnie Athey," handwritten page torn out of notebook; AA exercise, c. 1986-87
- "There used to come that point... a lump of numb meat," handwritten notes; recovery writing, late 1980s-- "The Perfect Gentleman," c. 1991; handwritten notes form session with Cross (aka Clayton Cross, the former Crystal Meth from the Speed Queens), for a Fetish Ball event
- "Radical Artists and Hardedge Hardcore Queers... Dyke women, they ground me," c. 1992; handwritten diaristic musings on rose-embellished stationery
- "After years of deep depression," handwritten note, c 1992, single sheet torn out of pad, relating to tattoo dream: text working through "suicide bed/tattoo salvation" scene, 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life
- "In the midst of my inevitable self destruction," handwritten note on yellow lined paper, torn out of pad, c. 1992; first page of sheaf of notes relating to tattoo dream: text working through "suicide/bed/tattoo salvation" scene, 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life-- "I started off on a destructive binge...," c. 1992 (actual text for "suicide bed/tattoo salvation" scene, 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life
- "Stations of the Martyr," handwritten notes for 1992 version of Martyrs and Saints at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE)
- "Here's the laying out of the symbology, a dissection, of a Ron Athey performance," typescript with sketch at the end of wrapped body and the handwritten text, "I prophesize a year of total sensory deprivation," c. 1994; automatic writing experiment leading towards Martyrs and Saints-- "My life is going by so quick," typescript with handwritten amendations, c. 1993-94 (text working through ideas for 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life, including Butch Dehner, aka George Rausch, script)-- "There's so many ways to say hallelujah," c. 1994, handwritten notes for 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life-- "There's so many ways to say Hallelujah/ The dominant male evangelist," c. 1994, handwritten notes in a spiral sketchpad for 4 Scenes in a Harsh Lie
- "Walker," typescript of performance script for Patrick's Cabaret show of 4 Scenes in a Harsh Lie, co-sponsored by the Walker Art Gallery, 1994
- "Once in a while I realize that most of the world hates faggots," typescript of musing on AIDS experience, c. 1995-- Miscellaneous typed pages of Judas Cradle script. c/ 2003-4, showing appropriated text from Jean Genet's Prisoner of Love
- "Queen Mary Artist Lecture," typescript showing visuals and spoken text, c. 2010
- Gifts of the Spirit scene sketches (1-3) and sheets of automatic writing collages (4-13), miscellaneous handwritten (14), London, c. 2010
- "1. Psychic Death / 2. Where is the soul?.... Why did you come here?," handwritten notes from strategy meeting with Empress Stah in Rindelsham Forest, UK, c. 2012; Athey had been hired to direct her November 2012 Spill Festival cabaret show
- REFLECTIONS
- The Alchemist: Ron Athey, / Lisa Teasley
- Anatomy of a Revival / Karen Gonzalez Rice
- The Right to Bleed in Public: On Premature Ejaculation / Leon J. Hilton
- "A Poetry of Meaningful Experience": Miss Velma Jaggers's Stagecraft, Fisting, and Ron Athey's Miraculous Acts / Andy Campbell
- Ron Athey Rolls Deep / Lisa Newman
- The Beauty of the Dork / Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey
- big brother/big sister / Cesar Padilla-- AIDS, Athey, and Culture War / Jonathan D. Katz
- An Unruly Archive By Each of Us Towards Each of Us... / Julie Tolentino
- Father Daughter Love / Zackary Drucker
- Athey-ism, revised version of "Athey-ism, Collaboration, and Hustler White," in Pleading in the Blood; The Art and Performances of Ron Athey, ed. Dominic Johnson (Bristol: Intellect Press, and London: Live Art Development Agency, 2013) / Bruce Labruce
- Divine Fire: Ron Athey in Europe / Dominic Johnson
- The Light of Night / Lia Gangitano
- OBJECT LESSONS
- Codpiece / Amelia Jones
- HIV Lifecycle Model / Andy Campbell
- Honcho / David Getsy
- "Rod 'n' Bob" (Arrested Intimacies of the Flesh) / Amber Jamilla Musser
- Leigh Bowery Cape / Alpesh Kantilal Patel
- Resonate/Obliterate (or, Untitled [Dear Ron]) / Ming-Yuen S. Ma
- "Raised in the Lord" / Jennifer Doyle
- GENERAL CHECKLIST / Amelia Jones. Religion, Speaking in Tongues, Family / 1961-1980
- Music and Queer Club Scenes, Los Angeles and Beyond/ 1976-1983, 1990s
- Body (as) Art, Performance Art/ 1980-present
- Art and Martyrdom: Performance, AIDS, the "Culture Wars"/ 1990s
- Literature, Opera, Theater 1990-2018
- Communion: Friendships, Caretaking, Love, and Loss/ c. 1961-ongoing
- Ron Athey Timeline / Ana Briz and Andy Campbell.